Epictetus Quotes About Attitude

Quotes about: Attitude

• It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

  Epictetus

  Happiness, Moving On, Attitude

• People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Positive, Attitude

• Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Attitude, Anger

• We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

  Epictetus

  Spiritual, Attitude, Inspiration

  Epictetus, Sharon Lebell (2013). “The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness”, p.10, Harper Collins

• Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.

  Epictetus

  Attitude, Views, People

• Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Attitude, Humor

• When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.

  Epictetus

  Attitude, People, Wish

• When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.

  Epictetus

  Life, Attitude, Accepting

  Epictetus, Sharon Lebell (2013). “The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness”, p.7, Harper Collins

• It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.

  Epictetus

  Inspiring, Attitude, Events

  "Victims and Values : A History and a Theory of Suffering". Book by Joseph Anthony Amato, David Monge (p. 36), 1990.

• When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals.

  Epictetus

  Attitude, Long, Doe

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.63

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